Movies: Christoph Engel

  • 1964
    Divided Heaven

    Divided Heaven (1964)

    Divided Heaven

    6.41964HD

    After a breakdown, Rita returns to her childhood village in 1961. As she recovers, she remembers the past two years: her love for the chemist Manfred, ten years her senior; how his enthusiasm about his new chemical process turned to bitter disappoint...

    Divided Heaven
  • 1986
    Jan on the Barge

    Jan on the Barge (1986)

    Jan on the Barge

    91986HD

    1934, Germany. Jan is a 13 year old boy, who is raised without a mother. His father, a communist, is accused of a political murder, and predicted to be shot by the police when he was on the run. Jan lives with his aunt and finds a friend, Max, who wa...

    Jan on the Barge
  • 1979
    Coded Message for the Boss

    Coded Message for the Boss (1979)

    Coded Message for the Boss

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    Wolf Brandin is in his mid-twenties and lives with his wife and child in East Berlin at the end of the 1950s. In West Berlin, the student of electrical engineering is recruited by the American secret service CIA. But Brandin immediately notifies the ...

    Coded Message for the Boss
  • 1960
    Rumpelstiltskin and the Golden Secret

    Rumpelstiltskin and the Golden Secret (1960)

    Rumpelstiltskin and the Golden Secret

    4.91960HD

    East German adaptation of Grimm‘s fairy tale "Rumpelstiltskin"....

    Rumpelstiltskin and the Golden Secret
  • 1967
    Frozen Flashes

    Frozen Flashes (1967)

    Frozen Flashes

    91967HD

    In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in Peenemünde. But the British doubt the authenticity of the so called "Oslo report". Thus, the Germans continue their...

    Frozen Flashes
  • 1982
    Feuer unter Deck

    Feuer unter Deck (1982)

    Feuer unter Deck

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    Otto Scheidel (Manfred Krug) has been captain of the Elbe steamer Jenissei for over twenty years, but his ship, the last of its kind, is going to be converted into a floating restaurant. Otto, whose his strong attachment to the ship has already cost ...

    Feuer unter Deck
  • 1990
    The Architects

    The Architects (1990)

    The Architects

    6.81990HD

    The architect Daniel Brenner is in his late thirties when he receives his first challenging and lucrative commission: to design a cultural center for a satellite town in East-Berlin. He accepts the offer under the condition that he gets to choose who...

    The Architects
  • 1965
    The Rabbit Is Me

    The Rabbit Is Me (1965)

    The Rabbit Is Me

    6.71965HD

    The Rabbit Is Me was made in 1965 to encourage discussion of the democratization of East German society. In it, a young student has an affair with a judge who once sentenced her brother for political reasons; she eventually confronts him with his opp...

    The Rabbit Is Me
  • 1974
    Love at 16

    Love at 16 (1974)

    Love at 16

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    Although at first Ina barely takes any notice of Matti, the two teenagers gradually fall in love at their dance classes and begin their first real relationship. Their parents are upset about this development and try to prevent their children from see...

    Love at 16
  • 1982
    Apprehension

    Apprehension (1982)

    Apprehension

    5.71982HD

    Inge Herold is in her mid-thirties. She is divorced and lives with her 15-year-old son. She works as a psychologist and social worker and is involved with a married man. Suddenly, Inge finds out she may have breast cancer, which would mean an operati...

    Apprehension
  • 1976
    Die Emser Depesche

    Die Emser Depesche (1976)

    Die Emser Depesche

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    Die Emser Depesche
  • 1969
    Mohr und die Raben von London

    Mohr und die Raben von London (1969)

    Mohr und die Raben von London

    01969HD

    London in 1856. Karl Marx is living in exile in the British capital. One day, "Mohr", as Marx is called by his friends, meets the 13-year old worker′s son Joe. The boy works every day for twelve hours in a spinning mill and even has to work night shi...

    Mohr und die Raben von London
  • 1974
    Visa für Ocantros

    Visa für Ocantros (1974)

    Visa für Ocantros

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    Visa für Ocantros
  • 1967
    The Brave Truant

    The Brave Truant (1967)

    The Brave Truant

    5.21967HD

    On one very fine sunny day, a fourth-grader Thomas, as always, is out of the house in the morning to get to school by subway. But on this day he has a too good mood and that, along with the good weather, prevents him get to the lessons. He decides to...

    The Brave Truant
  • 1963
    Naked Among Wolves

    Naked Among Wolves (1963)

    Naked Among Wolves

    6.41963HD

    Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy shortly before the liberation of the camp....

    Naked Among Wolves
  • 1999
    Paths in the Night

    Paths in the Night (1999)

    Paths in the Night

    6.81999HD

    Set against the backdrop of post-unification Germany, the film explores the breakdown of relations in a decaying social structure....

    Paths in the Night
  • 1979
    Für Mord kein Beweis

    Für Mord kein Beweis (1979)

    Für Mord kein Beweis

    3.31979HD

    After a fierce argument Steffi Zinn′s husband leaves the joint flat and stays away from home over night. The next morning, his wife Steffi has disappeared and is reported as a missing person. Captain Lohm takes over the case and at first looks for si...

    Für Mord kein Beweis
  • 1965
    Der Nachfolger

    Der Nachfolger (1965)

    Der Nachfolger

    01965HD

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    Der Nachfolger
  • 1956
    Distinguishing marks: none

    Distinguishing marks: none (1956)

    Distinguishing marks: none

    01956HD

    Post-war Germany: Like so many other women, Gerda Krause has lost her husband during the war and has to fend for herself and her two children. She finds work as a seamstress but refuses the offering of her department chief Zimmermann to upgrade her q...

    Distinguishing marks: none
  • 1978
    Eine Handvoll Hoffnung

    Eine Handvoll Hoffnung (1978)

    Eine Handvoll Hoffnung

    01978HD

    Berlin at the end of the 1940s. Anneliese Weyher is working as a switchboard operator. She is living with her aunt after losing her parents in the war – a stroke of fate that has thrown the young woman off course emotionally. Indifferently, she is do...

    Eine Handvoll Hoffnung